[U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Scott Wood,

In message <20110125140547.2825fdad at udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> On cores that have FP (at least those that support the FPU POST, and
> which are currently having problems), use hard float, enable
> MSR[FP] or equivalent, and let GCC use FP for various tasks if it
> wants.  This shouldn't involve much more complexity than adding a
> small amount of init, which you'd need for the POST anyway.
> 
> On cores that don't have FP, use soft float, and don't include
> the FPU POST code.  This should not be any different than today, except
> for adding another compiler flag that depends on the build target.

And why exactly should we do all this, given the fact that there are
no intentions to work with floating point data in U-Boot?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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